
To determine if you will enjoy Bat Out of Hell, Jim Steinman's explosive musical that's blowing up the New York City Center stage for the next month, take this simple test. Does the simile, "We're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife" give you A) goosebumps, or B) nausea? For a certain generation, that sweltering image, and the song that encompasses it ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light"), was the ultimate adolescent aspirational anthem, a jokey double-dare of sex and commitment aimed at...